But these days, a large majority of the lettuce our country eats comes from the two places with the climate best suited to growing lettuce, the Salinas Valley in California and Yuma, Arizona.
I think it was after he had filmed Giant, which turned out to be his last movie, that he was heading toward Salinas to race at a Sports Car Club of America race.
This will be our fourth Steinbeck retreat, but this is the first one that we are actually hosting at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, so that's very exciting.
The Salinas Valley was once an inland lake and it drained through Moss Landing down and the velocity of that water falling two miles is what carved Monterey Canyon.